Train Dates for 1990.

(Note: Belfast YR = Belfast York Road; Belfast CSD = Belfast Central Services Depot; Belfast GVS = Belfast Great Victoria Street; ECS = Empty Coaching Stock; LE = Light Engine; GM = Railway company diesel locomotive; Whitehead generally means the RPSI's own Whitehead Excursion Station.)

Dates Page

Date Train/Operation Loco Itinerary/Route Special Notes
29/04
Running-In
4
Whitehead - Belfast YR - Whitehead Hauled carriages 88 and 91 to run in diner 88 after a brake and axlebox overhaul.
05/05
Engine Transfer
4
Whitehead - Belfast YR - Antrim - Lisburn - Dublin Connolly  
11/05
Comeragh
4
4: Dublin Heuston - Limerick Junction - Carrick-on-Suir - Bansha
055+4: Bansha - Limerick Junction
055: Limerick Junction - Limerick
No.4 failed near MP 29 after bursting a boiler tube, rescued by 055.
Cravens throughout.
12/05
Comeragh
Diesel
161: Limerick - Athenry - Galway - Athlone - Portarlington - Dublin Connolly
038: Dublin Connolly - Dundalk
108: Dundalk - Belfast Central
055+4 LE: Limerick - Inchicore
Cravens until Dundalk when NIR's 108 worked forward with RPSI coaches.
13/05
Comeragh
Diesel
Belfast Central - Lisburn - Antrim - Londonderry - Belfast YR - Whitehead 108 and the RPSI set.
08/06
ECS
4
Dublin Connolly - Mullingar - Athlone - Athenry - Ennis  
09/06
Ennis 750
4
Ennis - Gort & return (x3)  
10/06
Ennis 750
4
Ennis - Gort - Ennis (x4)
ECS: Ennis - Athenry - Athlone - Mullingar - Dublin Connolly
 
23/06
Yeats Country
4
Dublin Connolly - Sligo & return. Loco continued light to Sligo Quay for servicing.
01/07
Film Contract
Coaches
Dublin Heuston Coaches posed for Satzenbrau TV commercial.
07/07
Bray Seaside Festival
4
LE: Connolly - Bray
Bray - Greystones & return (x3)
Bray - Dublin Connolly
Charter to the Bray Seaside Festival Committee.
No.4 worked from Connolly, and returned wrong road Pearse - Connolly due to an OHLE failure.
21/07
Longford Festival Express
4
Dublin Connolly - Sligo & return Charter by Longford Festival committee.
Loco continued light to Sligo Quay for servicing.
28/07
North West Express
Diesel
Whitehead - Belfast YR - Portrush - Coleraine - Castlerock - Coleraine - Portrush - Belfast YR - Whitehead No locomotive available in Whitehead to operate a Portrush Flyer. Hauled by NIR 106.
11/08
Sea Breeze
4
Dublin Connolly - Wexford - Rosslare Harbour - Wexford - Dublin Connolly  
18/08
North West Express
Diesel
Whitehead - Belfast YR - Portrush - Coleraine - Londonderry - Coleraine - Portrush - Belfast YR - Whitehead No locomotive available in Whitehead to operate a Portrush Flyer. Hauled by NIR 108.
22/08
Running-In
461
Whitehead - Carrickfergus - Whitehead Inaugural trip (in grey undercoat with coach 114.
25/08
Running-In
461
Whitehead - Belfast YR - Whitehead With 3-coach train.
08/09
Sea Breeze
4
Dublin Connolly - Wexford - Rosslare Harbour - Wexford - Dublin Connolly. Due to engineering works the train ran wrong line Dún Laoghaire to Sandycove & Glasthule.
09/09
Running-In
461
Whitehead - Belfast YR - Whitehead - Carrickfergus - Whitehead - Belfast YR - Whitehead With 5-coach train.
23/09
Enfield Shuttle
4
Dublin Connolly - Enfield & return (x2)  
04/11
Running-In
461
LE: Whitehead - Carrickfergus - Whitehead
Whitehead - Belfast YR - Larne Harbour - Belfast YR - Whitehead
With 2-coach train.
11/11
Running-In
461
Whitehead - Belfast YR - Larne Harbour - Belfast YR - Larne Harbour - Whitehead With 4-coach train.
18/11
Running-In
461
Whitehead - Belfast YR - Coleraine - Belfast YR - Whitehead With 4-coach train.
02/12
Engine Transfer
4
Dublin Connolly - Lisburn - Antrim - Belfast YR - Whitehead